Herald Digi-Poll: How the parties are shaping up

Labour's support and that of its leader, David Shearer, has slipped a little since the Herald Digi-Poll two months ago but the parliamentary parties in the opposition bloc are still almost neck and neck with the Government bloc.

The Government bloc of parties is fractionally ahead.

If the results were translated to parliamentary seats, the situation is so fluid that just one or two seats either way would make a difference.

The Herald Digi-Poll survey of 750 people was taken between August 20 and 31 and has a margin of error of 3.6 per cent.